The Chalybeate plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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15° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 17° in 1940.
Chalybeate’s center stands about 490 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 400 ft to 560 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wicker Mountain, about 760 ft, 11 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Clayton formation (limestone), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 61×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Chalk, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 smaller units along the line are not listed.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Chalybeate reaches the Gulf of America by way of Muddy Creek, the Hatchie, Porters Creek, Cypress Creek and the Mississippi: about 970 river miles.
800 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Chalybeate; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Chalybeate has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 59 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Chalybeate normally reaches 62° and falls to 38°. The record high is 84°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.64 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Corinth 5 WSW, 15 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
